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Word: enigma (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been considered that some souls who are convinced to attend church by the first seventeen bongs may change their minds after the excessive repetition of the argument which the remaining 109 bongs constitute? Freshman Committee for Resolution of the Mem Church Bell Enigma...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TINTINN ABULATION | 12/13/1956 | See Source »

...because they run the big corporations, think they ought to run the country." Again and again he cried: "It is time to take the government away from General Motors and give it back to Joe Smith." But somewhere beneath his genteel belligerency there still lurked the elements of the enigma of 1952. "The tide is rising," said he in Newark, after a day of small and disappointing crowds in Democratic sections of New Jersey. "I only hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Through the East | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

...title of the film is a slight enigma, since the horse is very much alive for the major portion of the story, and in the end seems unlikely to return to earth in any shape or form. This may be the fault of the translation, though...

Author: By Judith Kursch, | Title: 'The Phantom Horse', Filmed In Japan, Showing at Exeter | 8/16/1956 | See Source »

...rebels in 1936, and, characteristically, to live just long enough to regret it. "He alone is truly wise who is conscious of his madness," he said in a lecture at Oxford. "I am conscious of my madness; therefore I am truly wise." Thus he lived and performed, an honored enigma. At one time, his work and his person seemed to have the embroidered smile of a saint on a religious banner; at another, the proud sneer of a Spanish beggar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man v. Windmills | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

CONGRATULATIONS ON TIME'S FEB. 27 ASTUTE AND KEENLY OBSERVANT ARTICLE ON BILL HOLDEN. BUT HE IS STILL AN ENIGMA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 12, 1956 | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

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